G&D announces Dr. Alfred Kraxenberger as new MD at Louisenthal subsidiary

Dr. Alfred Kraxenberger will strengthen the Management Board of Papierfabrik Louisenthal GmbH and be responsible for a new position covering technology and innovation from January this year. His remit will include research and development, technology, project management relating to industrialization, and the field of strategic technology marketing. The holder of a doctorate in physics comes…

AOptix names Scott Clark VP of Operations for identity solutions

AOptix announced that it has appointed Scott Clark as the company’s Vice President of Operations to lead production of its Identity Solutions and Communications products. “Scott joins AOptix at an exciting time,” said Dean Senner, Chairman and CEO of AOptix. “We recently announced major new deployments of our identity verification systems and we’re gearing up…

Hot off the press: The Vault # 11 is available for download

The management of an ID card lifecycle is a highly relevant topic for our  industry. Many government-issued travel and ID documents have lifetime guarantees of up to 10 years. A decade in electronics is a totally different thing than in security printing - advancements are much faster, as are the skills of hackers and counterfeiters.…

Cartes 2012: Trüb launches the world’s thinnest polycarbonate eDatapage

Trüb launches an ultra thin polycarbonate datapage with integrated chip module. Passport booklets with the novel datapage 600e feature improved performance regarding handling and material flexibility.  With a thickness close to 600 micrometers, the datapage is less thick than state-of-the-art products and significantly thinner than the maximum value of 900 micrometers specified by the International…

Silicon Trust welcomes Agfa as new partner

The Silicon Trust Executive Committee is delighted to welcome Agfa as a new partner to the Silicon Trust Program. Agfa is commercially active worldwide through wholly owned sales organizations in more than 40 countries. In 2011 the Group achieved a turnover of 3,023 million Euro. Agfa develops, produces and sells special films for the card…

Guinea to deploy new polycarbonate Identity Card from Trüb

Trüb will be supplying documents for one of Africa’s largest identity solutions for the Guinean government. The new identity card from Trüb is made of polycarbonate and is a key element of the comprehensive national identity solution to be implemented in the country. Trüb supplies the identity cards each citizen of Guinea will receive on…

Ingenico Healthcare/e-ID launches a range of terminals and solutions for e-Health systems

Ingenico Healthcare/e-ID, the new Ingenico division dedicated to security solutions and terminals for e-health and electronic identity (e-ID) systems, is announcing the launch of its new range of iHC terminals. Leading provider of e-Health security solutions in Europe and number one in Germany and in France since the purchase of XIRING, Ingenico Healthcare/e-ID provides healthcare professionals…

Etienne Veber joins Precise Biometrics as Chief Commercial Officer

Precise Biometrics is pleased to announce that Etienne Veber has joined Precise Biometrics in the capacity of Chief Commercial Officer and Executive Vice President. He comes on board as part of the company’s senior management team. Etienne will be based at Precise Biometrics’ U.S. subsidiary. He will have global responsibility for sales, marketing, business development…